brushwood
Example Sentences
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She deftly manoeuvres a tractor-load of brushwood which she's spent the afternoon cutting from common land owned jointly by the community.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2023
Las Provincias, a regional newspaper, reported police believe that the blaze may have been started by a spark from a machine used to gather brushwood.
From Reuters ● Mar. 25, 2023
Twigs of brushwood lie around a mud oven used for cooking.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2020
Readers today are unlikely to confuse an adolescent with an armload of brushwood used for fences and hedges.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 2, 2019
Here and there it passed over other rills, running down gullies into the Withywindle out of the higher forest-lands, and at these points there were tree-trunks or bundles of brushwood laid carefully across.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
